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...Cornell University in upstate New York, a gang of ten white youths jostled and harassed a young black student on Election Night. Six weeks before, someone had hurled a rock through a window of Ujamaa Hall, a residence predominantly for black students...
University experts agreed recently that the trial of the Gang of Four--former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's widow and three members of the Politburo during his rule--should impugn Mao's image in the minds of the Chinese people. But at the same time, they doubted that the trial represents the adoption of Western legal procedures in the People's Republic...
...regally erect and then alternately smirked and yawned during the reading of the indictment, apparently to show contempt for the proceedings. Still, there were some reports that at one point she broke down and cried. Other defendants seemed tired and worn from their long imprisonment. Two members of the Gang, Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, had shaved heads. Two other defendants, including Chen Boda, 76, who had been Mao's personal secretary and a theoretician of the Cultural Revolution, had to be helped to their places before the bar by two guards...
Jiang Qing is not accused of conspiring with Lin Biao, or with other members of the Gang of Four who allegedly planned an armed rebellion to "usurp power" in 1976, when Mao was close to death. Instead, the charges against her focus on her systematic persecution of creative artists during the Cultural Revolution. Among other things, she is accused of hiring 40 people in Shanghai to disguise themselves as Red Guards and ransack the homes of writers and performers. The apparent purpose: to find and destroy letters, photos and other potentially damaging materials on Jiang Qing's early career...
...doubt what the verdicts will be - guilty as charged. The judges, who are mostly party or military officials rather than professional jurists, are unlikely to ignore the well-known goals of China's strongman, Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, and his powerful allies. One is to discredit permanently the Gang of Four and other radicals who not only purged the current leaders but also brought China to the edge of chaos. An other is to lower public esteem for Mao without discrediting the Great Helmsman entirely...